Paxton To File Charges Against Pro-Impeachment Reps

The Texas Tribune reports:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Monday he plans to file criminal complaints against the group of state representatives who led the impeachment against him for releasing his personal information. “The impeachment managers clearly have a desire to threaten me with harm when they released this information last week,” he said in a statement. “I’m imploring their local prosecutors in each individual district to investigate the criminal offenses that have been committed.”

Paxton said he plans to file the criminal complaints in each of the eight counties represented by the dozen impeachment managers. Paxton’s addresses are available through already-published public records. House lawyer Rusty Hardin, who prosecuted Paxton, said Monday that the documents released last week contained the same information that was included in other documents that had already been filed or were admitted into the impeachment trial without objection.

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